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Protege 3 status

Build status

The most recent version in the Protege 3 series is the 3.4.5 patch release from March 11, 2011.

If you are upgrading to Protege 3.4 from an earlier version, please read the 3.4 release notes for important upgrade instructions.

Release notes

Links to release notes for Protege releases from the not too distant past:

• Protege 3.4.4 patch release, March 8, 2010
• Protege 3.4.3 patch release, February 3, 2010
• Protege 3.4.2 patch release, December 16, 2009
• Protege 3.4.1 patch release, June 18, 2009
• Protege 3.4 release, March 16, 2009
• Protege 3.3.1 patch release, August 24, 2007
• Protege 3.3 release, July 6, 2007
• Protege 3.2.1 patch release, December 20, 2006
• Protege 3.2 release, November 7, 2006
• Protege 3.1 release, July 8, 2005
• Protege 3.0 release, February 4, 2005

General (applicable to Frames and OWL)

Documentation links in this section are applicable to all flavors of the Protege 3.x series, e.g., Protege-Frames, Protege-OWL, etc.

• Display configuration
  • Adding synonyms to class names
  • Hiding identifiers with labels, browse ontologies in a different language
  • Displaying images in ontologies
• Support for internationalization - see all menus, labels, etc. in a different language
• Setting the heap size for Protege

Protege-OWL

• Getting started with Protege-OWL
• Protege-OWL Tutorial - tutorial written by Matthew Horridge on developing OWL ontologies using the Protege-OWL editor (slightly outdated, but still very helpful).
• Imports
  • How imports work in OWL 1.0
  • Managing imports
• Using DL reasoners in Protege-OWL
• Manchester OWL Syntax
• Migration from 3.1 to 3.4 (Software) (Doc) - application written by Brice Sommacal from the Protege user community to help with upgrade process.
• Database backend
  • Working with the database back-end in OWL
  • Script for converting an OWL file to the database backend

Collaborative Protege & Protege Client-Server

• Protege Client-Server tutorial - setup and use of the client-server capabilities
• Collaborative Protege - support for collaborative ontology development; adding notes to classes, change tracking, chat, etc.
• Change tracking - track and record the changes the users make in the ontology
• WebProtege - support for collaboration in the Protege Web client

Protege-Frames

• Getting started with Protege-Frames (English)
• Getting started with Protege-Frames (Portuguese)
• Protege-Frames User's Guide
• Information about the "Experimental XML File" back-end
• Graph widget tutorial for Frames ontologies

WebProtege

• WebProtege - a lightweight, web-based ontology browser and editor with collaboration support.

Graph Widget

• Graph widget tutorial for OWL ontologies
• Graph widget tutorial for Frames ontologies
• How to upgrade OWL projects that use the graph widget from Protege 3.3.1 to Protege 3.4 and higher